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flreet, Candlewick flreet, Eaftcheap, Swithin's lane, Little Wood ftreet. 

 Milk flreet, Tower ftreet, Water lane, (near the cuflom-houfej Rood 

 lane, St. Mary-hill, Thames ftreet from London bridge to Puddle-dock, 

 Pye-corner, Threadneedle ftreet, and the paflage at Holborn bridge, 

 were direded to be \\adened ; and the Royal exchange, Gildhall, the 

 Sefllons-houfe in the Old bailey, and the city prifons to be enlarged. 

 Two fliillings more per chaldron were laid on coals ; in all three {hil- 

 lings. One fourth part of all monies appropriated for rebuilding parifti 

 churches was to be applied for rebuilding St. Paul's cathedral. The 

 channel of Bridewell-dock, from the Thames to Holborn bridge, (now 

 known by the name of Fleet-ditch, though it will foon lofe that name 

 alfo) was ordered to be made navigable. Alfo a new ftreet to be made 

 from the weft end of Threadneedle ftreet into Lothbury, (this is Prin- 

 ces ftreet). Two pofterns for foot pafl'engers to be made at Ludgate, 

 and the gate to be enlarged. [22 Car. II, c. 11.] 



At this time King Charles II was enabled by two ads of parliament, 

 [22 Car. II, c. 6 ; 22, 23 Car. II, c. 24] to alienate his fee-farm rents, 

 the purchafe-money of which was prefently fquandered away, under 

 pretence of paying the king's debts bearing mtereft. Thefe rents were 

 a noble income and refource to the crown, which furely no wife king 

 would ever have alienated, on any pretence whatever. The purchafers 

 had very cheap bargains of thofe rents, though now they fell at very 

 high prices. Thus this improvident monarch completed what his pre- 

 deceflors had begun and carried very far, viz. to render themielves ab- 

 folutely dependent on their parliaments ; which ftiould be very far from 

 difpleafmg the true friends of England's liberty. 



In fpite of prohibitions and penalties, tobacco was ftill cultivated in 

 England ; wherefor a new ad: was pafled to prohibit it : whereby the 

 peace officers were dircded to fearch for and prevent tobacco growing 

 within their refpedive bounds ; and to deftroy the fame wherever found ; 

 with a provifo, however, as formerly, of allowing it to the phyfic gar- 

 dens of both univerfitics, or other private gardens for phyfic or furgery, 

 fo as any one fuch plantation exceed not the compafs of halt a pole or 

 perch for every fuch garden. [22, 23 Car. II, c. 26.] To this ad there 

 was added a claufe, exprefsly repealing the word Ireland, in the ad 12 

 Car. II, c. I 8 ; fo that now the produd of the Englifti plantations brought 

 to Europe muft be firft landed in England only, before they be reftiip- 

 ped for other parts. 



We have feen, under the year 1667, that till that year there was noc- 

 the leaft mention of America in any treaty between England and Spain; 

 the later willing to keep up her antient claims in that country, and the 

 former determined to keep and improve the footing ftie had gained 

 there. The feeble condition of Spain, however, at length brought her 

 to reafonable conditions : and as the eighth article of the treaty of 



